Pocket for bloomers



M. SULLIVAN POCKET FOR BLOOMERSl `Filed June 22. 1923 Sept. 14 1926.

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iw. SULLWAN POCKET Fon BLQMERS 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 I l l -1 I `Filed June K 22 1923 Patented Sept. 14, 19.26.

narran starts MINNIE SULLIVAN, or cnroAeo, rLLrNoIs;

POCKET Non BLoolvrn-ns.

Application inea June 22,

The invention relates to undergarments for women and more particularly to bloomers.

It is an object of this invention to make a pocket for bloomers, out of one strip of cloth so folded that it will have the nish Side visible.

It is a further object of the invention to so construct the pocket that it may be attached to the bloomers at any time and of such a design as will reinforce them, and prevent them from sagging, when the pocket is lled.

Another object is to so attach the pocket to the bloomers that the receptacle will be on the inside of the bloomers and thus not flap back and forth while the wearer is walking, nor will it bulge out while the wearer is seated, it being held close to the body by the bloomer leg,

The pocket may be attached to the gar-l ment at the time the 'bloomers are being made or it may be attached to bloomers at any time if they have not been provided with a pocket by the manufacturer. Y

ln the accompanying drawings has been illustrated, a simple and preferred form of the invention, it being, however, understood that no limitation is necessarily made to the precise details therein, but that changes and alterations, within the scope of the invention may be resorted to when desired.

In the drawings:

`Figure 1 illustrates the strip of cloth from which the pocket `is to be made, indieating in dotted lines the folds.

Figure 2 represents the strip of cloth folded over and seamed, the second step in the forming of the pocket and shows in dotted lines where the fold for the next step takes place.

Figure 3 shows the strip folded as required by the second step and shows in dotted lines the fold for the next step.

Figure 4C shows the Jthird step with the corners shown in dotted lines that are to be cut off before the pocket is turned inside out.

Figure 5 shows a sectional view taken on line 5 5 of Figure 4.

Figure 6 shows the fourth step or receptacle of the pocket as it will appear after being turned inside out.

Figure 7 is a longitudinal section taken through the pocket and the garment.

1923. Serial No. 647,182.

Figure 8 shows aperspective view of the garment with thepocket attached.

To form the pocket, the strip shown in Figure 1 is folded back along dotted line 10, (Figure 1) and then stitched along the edges 11 and 12 (Figure 2) thus forming a flap for the pocket.

The strip shown in Figure 2 is then folded along edge 13 in the direction of the dotted line and then stitched at 14 and 15 (Figure 3) and is then ready for the third step which is indicated by the dotted lines. It is then folded along dotted line 16, (Fig ure 8) until its upper edge is on a line with the upper edge of the flap.

It is next sewed around the edge as illustrated in Figure 4i and shown in crosssection in Figure 5. The corners 17 (F ig ure 4) are then out ofi1 and the pocket is turned inside out and will appear as illustrated in Figures 6 and 7.

A slit 18 is next provided in the bloomer leg` and the reinforcing strip 24 of the pocket is then attached to the waist band 19 and sewed to the bloomer leg, the receptacle of the pocket being inserted through the slit into the inside of the bloomer.

The upper portion 21 of the pocket is attached to the garment and the inner flap 2Q of the pocket, extends out onto and is stitched to the flap 23, thus making the inner edge of the slit invisible.

I claim:

l. A pocket for bloomers made of a single continuous piece of material, comprising a receptacle, a flap covering an open end of said receptacle, and a reinforcing strip extending from the waist band of the bloomer to the receptacle. y

2. A pocket made of a single continuous piece of material comprising a receptacle having a plurality of double layer walls, a reinforcing strip extending from one of said walls and a double thickness flap covering an open end of said receptacle.

3. ln combination with a garment having an opening therein, of a pocket for said garment comprising a receptacle and a flap therefor made of a single continuous piece of material, said pocket having double layer walls, the outer wall thereof being stitched to one edge of said opening and the inner wall being stitched to the other edge of said opening, said flap extending from said inner wall and projecting through said opening and stitched to the outside of the garment.

Ll. A pocket comprising;r a receptacle having a plurality of double layer Walls, one of said layers of said Walls being folded on itself and forming` a double thickness Hap, and part of a reinforcing strip, the other of said layers of said Wall being secured to the reinforcing strip.

5. In a pair of blooiners provided with a slit and a Waist band, a reinforcing strip Secured to said Waist band and stitched t0 the blooiner leg, said strip being extended and folded on itself to form a receptacle eX- tending),` thru said slit, and a flap formed 15 on said strip and closing said slit and the open end of said receptacle.

n testimony whereof I affix iny signature at 36 W. Randolph St., Chicago, Illinois.

MINNIE Sl'llliLIVl-UY 

